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Geraldine Brooks at Luminato

In June, Michael hosted an event at the Toronto Reference Library as part of Luminato's "Modern-Day Shahrazads" program, where he spoke with the Pulitzer...

Joan Thomas: Curiosity

It was like finding a fossil in rock when Joan Thomas stumbled on the subject of her second book. The Winnipeg novelist was researching...

The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition

The Picture of Dorian Gray, is Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde's, only novel. The title character is a young man with the face of an...

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

For most of us, he looked like Peter O'Toole. We think of him as Lawrence of Arabia, and imagine him dressed as a Bedouin...

Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Story

Theirs was a whirlwind romance...they were married three months after they met. She was 22, innocent and inexperienced. It was a storybook marriage..."as measured...

Gurjinder Basran: Everything Was Goodbye

At first glance, the central character in the novel, Everything Was Goodbye, is like any other callow teenage girl - rebellious, self-absorbed, and preoccupied...

Deborah Mitford: Wait for Me!

Debbo Mitford was the last of seven children - one of a brood of six sisters and a brother - born to the Baron...

The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright

The bare bones of this story have the makings of a mini series. A seven-year-old girl is captured by Indians and taken to live...

The Mysterious Mystery of Agatha Christie

Next to the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world's best-known and best-selling writer. A billion of her books have been sold in...

The Narnia Man

On Nov. 22, 1963, the American president, John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in an open car in a motorcade through downtown Dallas....